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On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave final approval to a regulation streamlining the bloc's AI rules, carried in the Omnibus VII package; the amendments entered into force on 27 July 2026.
India hosted the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16 to 21 February 2026, the first edition of the global AI summit series held in the Global South. A declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and organisations, and 13 model providers signed frontier AI commitments.
On 19 November 2025 the European Commission proposed a digital omnibus on AI that would tie high-risk AI obligations to the availability of standards, stretch their start to at most 16 months, add a 2028 sandbox and strengthen the AI Office.
On 4 November 2025 the High Court of England and Wales ruled in Getty Images v Stability AI, rejecting Getty's secondary copyright claim but finding very limited trademark infringement over watermarks in some outputs.
Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on 29 September 2025, California's Senate Bill 53 sets state-level oversight and incident-reporting rules for the most advanced AI models, while leaving room to align with future federal standards.
Four Chinese departments issued measures requiring labels on AI-generated text, audio, images and video, in explicit and file-metadata form, effective 1 September 2025.
A White House policy document released on 23 July 2025 that lists more than 90 federal actions across three pillars — innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security — to speed AI development and exports in the United States.
In 2025 Disney and Universal, followed by Warner Bros. Discovery, sued the AI image service Midjourney for copyright infringement; the three cases were later consolidated.
On 3 June 2025 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the U.S. AI Safety Institute, housed in NIST, would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a pro-innovation body focused on voluntary standards, industry testing and unclassified national-security evaluations.
On 14 February 2025, the UK minister for science, innovation and technology announced at the Munich Security Conference that the AI Safety Institute would become the AI Security Institute, focusing on security-related risks and adding a criminal misuse team.
In February 2025 a Delaware federal judge held that Ross Intelligence's use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal AI tool infringed Thomson Reuters' copyright, and rejected its fair use defence — described as the first substantive AI copyright ruling.
France and India co-hosted the Paris AI Action Summit on 10–11 February 2025, where 60 countries and international organisations signed a statement on inclusive, sustainable AI. The United States and the United Kingdom did not sign.
On 2 February 2025 the first binding parts of the EU AI Act took effect: bans on certain AI practices and requirements on AI literacy. Guidelines on the banned practices followed two days later.
On 20 January 2025, Executive Order 14148 revoked Executive Order 14110 of 30 October 2023, and a separate order signed on 23 January 2025 replaced its policy direction with a push for American AI dominance and a 180-day action plan.
On 28 October 2024 the Open Source Initiative released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, a community-designed standard for what may be called open source AI.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1047 on 29 September 2024. The bill would have required safety safeguards for large AI models and created a Board of Frontier Models.
In August 2024 a US judge let illustrators suing Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway AI pursue some copyright and trademark claims, while leaving the core training-data question undecided.
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act took effect on 1 August 2024. It sets one risk-based rulebook for AI across EU countries, banning social scoring and requiring chatbots to disclose themselves, with rules for general-purpose models to follow.
In June 2024 the RIAA announced that major record companies had sued Suno and Udio, two AI music generation services, alleging that building them required copying decades of copyrighted sound recordings.
On 21 May 2024, ten countries and the European Union signed the Seoul Declaration at the AI Seoul Summit, one of three outcome documents that tied government statements to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments and the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct.
On 2 April 2024 China's cyberspace administration began publishing which generative AI services had completed filing, and required launched apps to display the model name and filing number they use.
